Featured Artists
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Ida Ma
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Ida Ma has enjoyed singing since childhood. She went on to build numerous business ventures including her own travel agency, a delightful cafe, and now in real estate as a seasoned broker. Although she did not pursue singing professionally, she still relishes in performing, having sung in places of worship, celebration, and remembrance. It gives…
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SUZ Takeda (Writer/Performing Artist) has been involved in the Bay Area theater scene since 1991. SUZ has performed as a solo performer, an actress with Asian American Theater Company, and as her live cabaret act “Ginger Hashimoto” –a Las Vegas lounge diva singer via Tokyo, Japan. SUZ is a recipient of Asian American Arts Foundation…
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Photo by Leon Sun Francis Wong is a long time composer/instrumentalist and community worker rooted in Asian American consciousness movements of the 1970s to today. In addition to deep engagement in historic local communities, he has traveled and performed nationally and internationally. His work is well documented in audio recordings, documentary film, and academic literature.…
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Shoko Hikage began playing koto at the age of three. Her first teacher was Chizuga Kimura of the Ikuta-ryu Sokyoku Seigen Kai in Akita Prefecture, Japan. From 1985, she received special training from the 2nd and 3rd IEMOTO Seiga Adachi (hereditary head master of the Ikuta-ryu Sokyoku Seigen Kai). In 1988, Hikage graduated from Takasaki…
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Photo by Hien Huynh Lenora Lee is the Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance (LLD), and has been an Artist Fellow at the de Young Museum, a Djerassi Resident Artist, a Visiting Scholar at New York University through the Asian/Pacific/American Institute, an Artist in Residence at Dance Mission Theater, and a 2019 United States Artists…